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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 271 Collections and/or Records:

Piecemeal Part Eight, 1989

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-21688-22099
Scope and Contents

Concluding essay by Harry Polkinhorn on Guy Beining's eight books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Po-Ex: Textos Teoricos e Documentos da Poesia Experimental Portuguesa, 1979

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Identifier: CC-31087-32552
Scope and Contents

A table of chronology of Portuguese concrete poetry included in this book indicates that it began in 1962 with publication of de Melo e Castro's book, "Ideogramas." The book reprints texts and correspondence from the early days of concrete poetry in Portugal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Poeta Visual, 1998

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Identifier: CC-30627-32067
Scope and Contents

Victoria Combalia writes in her essay The Disturbing Objects of Joan Brossa that "certain themes on Brossa's work are easily recognized as 'Brossian': masks, letters of the alphabet, ordinary objects from daily life, playing cards...Perhaps the most important motif - or at the least the most utilized - by Brossa are letters of the alphabet. Brossa works with them as Cezanne did with his apples; he uses them in every way and in all places, as they are for him his dearest motif." In terms of his visual poetry, Combalia states that it "belongs to the long tradition of experimental poetry, in the line that goes from Mallarme to concrete poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

poezien, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-15300-15622
Scope and Contents

This book depicts an sampling of De Vree's poetic styles. Two original typed pages held by the Sackner Archive are reproduced in this book, "mier mens" page 17 and "picnic" page 25. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

poezja konkretna / concrete poetry, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-54523-989988
Scope and Contents

Critical essays on Finlay's work and specific poems are provided by Piotr Rypson and Tadeusz Slawek, respectively. The illustrations in this catalogue depict prints and cards of Finlay's work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Poor Old Tired Horse, No. 18, 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-50599-71672
Scope and Contents

Bridget Riley did the drawings and layout, Ad Reinhardt the text and calligraphy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts , 1996

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Identifier: CC-27654-28737
Scope and Contents This catalogue, edited by Robert A. Sobieszek, curator of photography at LACMA, was issued for an exhibition in 1996. It emphasizes the importance and influence of the painted and poetic works as well as the life of William Burroughs and his collaborator, Brion Gysin. In his preface Sobieszek writes that "Burroughs is far more than a writer of imaginative prose and speculative fiction. His revolutionary literary tactics have led him to margins of activity where genres cease to matter, where the distinctions between words and images blend together, where paragraphs become filmic montage, and where a shotgun blast is the same as a painting. At the core of Burroughs's art is the 'cut-up' technique that he and Brion Gysin developed following the appearance of Naked Lunch. While loosely related to the more traditional techniques of collage, photomontage, and text-image experiments used by modern artists, Burroughs's cut- up strategy inaugurated an essentially postmodern shift in the...
Dates: 1996

Postmodern Genres, 1988

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Identifier: CC-03877-3950
Scope and Contents

Perloff states "It is the paradox of postmodern genre that the more radical the dissolution of traditional generic boundaries, the more important the concept of genericity becomes. "Hubert contributes an essay critically analyzing the book "Une Piece Ciruclaire" and Perloff one on Cage's "Roaratorio;" both books are held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Printing Poetry: A Workbook in Typographic Reification , 1980

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Identifier: CC-21033-21442
Scope and Contents

Book describes the craft of letterpress printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980